Building rural resilience to seismically active areas

This study report identifies the key research needs across the natural and social sciences with the aim of increasing the resilience of rural communities to seismic hazards. The study comprised three components: (i) bottom-up engagement with communities in Central Nepal to develop an understanding of the interface between natural hazard science, the concerns of the community relative to seismic risk and their perceptions and understandings of earthquake-related hazards; (ii) a one-month consultation with the project partners to identify the relevant initiatives that are already underway and the key research needs from the perspective of the practitioner community; (iii) an invited workshop at Durham University involving local and regional partners, and additional academic experts from the US and UK, with the aim of contextualizing the findings from the study.